caliban Flashcards
1668 pepy’s diary
deformed, ‘monster
Vaughn and Vaughn
‘grotesque deformities’
Garrick’s New Operatic Tempest 1750’s
lines cut down, moved to background
Ulrici 1800’s
representative of what is the personified idea of human wickedness’
colderidge
‘in some respects a noble being; the poet has raised him far above contempt’
Hazlitt 1817
‘deformity, whether of body or mind, is redeemed by the power and truth of the imagination displayed in it’
Berry, 1900-2000
‘Caliban is ‘the other’ and Prospero has power over him through language’
Kean’s production 1860’s
elements of Darwinism
Brook production, 1960’s
link to evil and witchcraft explored
20th century
focus switched to caliban with more sympathetic protrayals
Delvin
‘Caliban is a master of the situation’